How To Use Piddock In A Sentence

  • The White piddock has mostly been described as smaller than the American one, but at the Belgian coast, opposite results have been found.
  • The piddock has a thin, brittle shell that is similar in shape and sculpturing on both sides.
  • In SE Asia piddocks may be boiled and eaten with sauce and rice, or sautéed with shallots, or made into a curry.
  • This member of the Piddock family lives intertidally in mud and peat banks.
  • Some boring shellfish bore with chemistry, but the American piddock is a mechanical borer – repetitively grinding its shell with a rotating movement backward and forward to create a burrow for itself in softer substrates in the shallows of the intertidal zones.

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